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Something as simple as changing the brand of silverware
stocked in your break room or moving your conference line to a free service can
pay off big time
over the course of a year.
Ford's board may have decided to leave out the cash base
pay (which, prorated, would've been a little
over $ 1 million) because unlike
stock, a direct cash payment could make for poorer optics, said Alan Johnson of the executive compensation consulting firm Johnson Associates.
Verizon (vz) has previously announced that it would
pay employee bonuses via grants of restricted
stock worth
over $ 2,000 each due to the tax legislation.
Dividends, the share of their revenues that companies
pay to their shareholders, are a big deal:
Over the past century, they've accounted for roughly half of total returns earned by
stock investors.
They're
paying the lowest premium in nearly three years to protect against a 10 % decline in Nvidia's
stock over the next three months, relative to bets on a 10 % increase, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Shareholders approved the sale, which
paid them $ 13.65 in cash for each share of common
stock, a 37 % premium
over the recent average closing price.
If those options were exercised and the
stock was then sold at, say, $ 40, it would amount to a bonus of almost $ 330 million — the market price less the strike price, times the number of options granted —
paid out to Siebel employees
over the next nine years.
If the 8,000 Canadians who received
stock options as part of incomes
over $ 250,000
paid taxes on this money at the same rate as the rest of their income — treating executive compensation the same way you treat the income of any other working stiff — it would have raised $ 337 million for federal coffers in 2009, a down year for options.
Apple's long - term debt has grown to almost $ 100 billion
over the past few years partly because it needs a source of funds to buy back
stock and
pay dividends.
A group of companies that spend the least on employee
pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost
stocks by 13 percentage points
over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.
Goldman's «burn rate» - the proportion of outstanding
stock used to
pay staff - averaged 3 %
over the past three years.
This includes: contracting with a fulfillment company to
stock and ship all your customer orders; hiring an online marketing company to manage and run your
pay - per - click ad campaigns for you; turning
over your payroll to a professional employment agency; etc..
Remember that the price Michael Dell's group
paid represented a 28 % premium
over the
stock price ($ 10.88) on the day before news of the merger deal first leaked to the press in January 2013, and a 39 % premium
over the 90 - day average
stock price ($ 9.97) before that date.
The president criticized the e-commerce retailer
over taxes and claimed it has not
paid the post office adequately for its delivery services, spurring a plunge in its
stock price.
The answer, suggest institutional investors like Mark Wiseman, CEO of the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, is to align
pay to longer industry and product cycles, and to use restricted
stock units (rather than
stock options) that vest
over time — even after the CEO retires — pushing executives to think seriously about what happens after they're gone.
Mylan (MYL) will
pay $ 205 per share in cash and
stock for the Ireland - based drugmaker, representing a 24.2 % premium
over its closing price Tuesday.
If you've
paid attention to the
stock market
over the past few weeks, you've probably had a bit of an uneasy feeling in your stomach.
One common device: rules mandating that workers with more than a few bucks» worth of
stock be
paid off
over five years or more.
Microsoft Corp., which is in Redmond, Washington, is
paying $ 196 for each share of LinkedIn Corp., a 50 per cent premium
over the
stock's closing price of $ 131.08 on Friday.
Skeptics see a company whose earnings - per - share growth, which has averaged 30 % annually
over the past five years, is bound to slow down, which makes it tough to justify
paying 23 times estimated 2017 earnings for the
stock.
Because PE is a measure of earnings
over time, you can think of it as representing the number of years required to
pay back a
stock's purchase price (ignoring inflation, earnings growth and the time value of money).
As the owner of more than 90 % of voting
stock at the company, Adderley has control
over the election of the company's board directors, its advisory Say on
Pay vote, and, at the coming May annual meeting, to renew the Kelly's short and long - term compensation plans.
That may explain why Japan's Suntory jumped ahead of a number of European suitors, including France's Pernod Ricard, to bid for Beam last month — offering to
pay Beam stockholders $ 83.50 per share, a 25 % premium
over the
stock's then - market price of around $ 67, in addition to assuming some $ 2.4 billion in company debt.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products
over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to
pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its
stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
T - Mobile, the third - ranked carrier, and Sprint, the No. 4 carrier, have also been discussing a deal that would combine the two carriers without
paying Sprint shareholders much if any of a premium
over the recent
stock price, Bloomberg reported two weeks ago.
The Dolan Co., owner of The Daily Record in Baltimore, has signaled financial distress by hiring a restructuring officer, deciding against
paying a dividend and disclosing that it received a warning from the New York
Stock Exchange over its low sto
Stock Exchange
over its low
stockstock...
I absolutely do not believe that mutual funds are a better investment than individual
stocks (companies that
pay rising dividends
over time)
over the long run, so I invest the rest of my savings in a taxable account (as well as maxing out my Roth IRA every year, of which individual
stocks are purchased).
So management
paid a 21 % premium
over the value investors are now according its
stock.
The
stock also
pays an annual dividend of
over 10 %.
I understand that the employee eyes may prefer payment in cash
over stock for various reasons, and that the employer may prefer to
pay in
stock over cash.
An obvious exaggeration: Selling your shares tends to lower the
stock price, affecting
stock - price - based executive
pay, capital - raising ability, prospects of being taken
over, etc..
These are defined as
stocks that historically
paid a persistently higher - than - average dividend (as a percentage of their share price)
over time.
Because the restricted shares are accounted for as options, the Notes are not recorded in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, the shares are excluded in the totals for common
stock outstanding as of April 30, 2012 and 2013 and December 31, 2013, and compensation cost is recognized
over the requisite service period with an offsetting credit to additional
paid - in capital.
Director compensation typically consists of a cash component (retainer), smaller cash amounts
paid for attendance at board and committee meetings, and incentive compensation in the form of
stock and
stock option grants which vest
over a period of a few years.
When a firm announces, for example, that it plans to acquire another company, the target company's
stock will generally rise in value, while the acquiring company's will fall, typically due to the uncertainty surrounding any acquisition and because the acquirer usually has to
pay a premium
over what the target company is worth.
Under the terms of the deal, Walmart will
pay $ 3 billion in cash, a portion of which will be distributed to Jet.com stakeholders
over time, while $ 300 million will be
paid in Walmart
stock over time, according to a statement released by the companies on Monday.
Over the past few weeks, we have stated several times that
paying attention to the price action of leading
stocks and industry sectors is best way to gauge the health of the market.
In the event of a change of control (as defined in the plan), the compensation committee may, in its discretion, provide for any or all of the following actions: (i) awards may be continued, assumed, or substituted with new rights, (ii) awards may be purchased for cash equal to the excess (if any) of the highest price per share of common
stock paid in the change in control transaction
over the aggregate exercise price of such awards, (iii) outstanding and unexercised
stock options and
stock appreciation rights may be terminated, prior to the change in control (in which case holders of such unvested awards would be given notice and the opportunity to exercise such awards), or (iv) vesting or lapse of restrictions may be accelerated.
The tender offer closed in September 2011, and at the close of the transaction, the Company recorded $ 34.7 million as compensation expense related to the excess of the selling price per share of common
stock paid to the Company's employees and consultants
over the fair value of the tendered share, and $ 35.8 million as deemed dividends in relation to excess of the selling price per share of common and preferred
stock paid to existing investors in excess of the fair value of the shares tendered.
In our National Bureau of Economic Research study of
over 40,000 employees, two - thirds of the most risk - averse employees reported that they would like at least some ownership, profit sharing, or
stock options in their
pay package.
«Whether it is a company running up debt to
pay for expenses, or a person borrowing to buy
stocks on margin, the borrower is giving someone else the right to say when the game is
over» Chris Browne
«
Over a period of years we have tended to earn about 20 percent on capital per year before compensation, and about 3 percent of that has been
paid to management as compensation, leaving 17 percent to the
stock holders»
But I think investors have been
paying more attention to the company's challenges than its opportunities recently, with the
stock dropping almost 16 %
over just the last month alone.
On the other hand, if you want to be more aggressive, want total control
over your investments, and would prefer to avoid
paying a professional manager 1 - 2 % per year, individual
stocks may be for you.
Options can be favored
over shorting due to increased liquidity, especially for
stocks with smaller floats, or due to increased leverage and a capped maximum loss, since the investor can not lose more than the premiums
paid.
Over the past couple of years, Clean Energy Fuels Corp (NASDAQ: CLNE) has issued a lot of cheap
stock to
pay down debt and raise cash.